Eels coach Stuart fumes about refs

Stuart , the Parra coach has always had a problem with referees , even when he was playing , he says that Parramatta is a very , very easy team to penalise .What does he mean . Do they make infringments than other teams . Ricky the refereeing this year has been immeasurably superior to the past few years , so get over it . Make your team the very very hardest to penalise , whatever that means . Perhaps it means making less infringments , have you thought of that . Stop your whinging and stick to coaching your team .

One for the Stat jockeys - find out the hometown penalty count for each ref. It might be hard to explain away if a ref consistently penalises in favour of the hometown and also the difference in the % / number of penalties given between the away and home teams.

As a Sharks and NSW fan, I'm glad both have seen the back of Stuart. The whinge mentality really sucks. The victim mentality rubs on the players, and the fans. Grow up Ricky!

Well said JB, Fans like Steve b seem to hold referees to a different standard of professionalism than players and coaches. Apparently it is ok for players to make mistakes by knocking-on, passing the ball forward, dropping the ball/pass, being inside the 10 etc... But lo and behold a referee make a mistake in a game... Apparently players mistakes don't cost games, only referees do Apparently according to Ricky, it is impossible for one team to be more ill-disciplined than another and, if there is a lop-sided penalty count, the referee has got it wrong. Here is a theory to consider. Players get paid a lot more than referees and should be making less mistakes rather than more in a game (I'm sure everyone will agree that,in general, players do make more mistakes in a game) Here's another theory. Coaches blame referees because, if they didn't, they are the only people in the crosshairs. Time for teams to take responsibility for their performance rather than blaming everyone else.

I'd say Ricky is trying lift his players, create that siege mentality us against them, we lost cos we was robbed. I don't think they were that hard done by. For a team with 3 captains and a half back it seemed like no one was leading them in that critical final quarter when they let GC back in...that's to me how they lost that game...no one stepped up to control it well

Professional referee's don't "interpret" rules, they enforce rules, all rules, at all times. Galoots interpret everything in accordance with their innate stupidity ~ giving them as whistle doesn't increase their IQ or sensibility . . . . . . . as is easily observed every weekend. As for ref's "training" or "busting their gut". . . . . pppffffft

Ricky Stuart whinging? What a surprise! He is responsible for nothing; when his team loses, it's always someone else's fault.

Second half, Sandow kicked out on the full. Crusher tackle penalty. ? You saying a crusher does not deserve a penalty. ? I am watching the replay now. Penalty Mannah headclash. ? Surely a headlcash on the kicker deserves a penalty, imagine if this happened to Sandow at Parra. Parra knocked on at the srum, 10 metres out from the Titans line. ? So is a knock on not a knock on, parra stuffed up simple. Moi Moi flew into Mayles high shot. Mate i only see silly Parra mistakes, nothing illigel. If you were watching you would have seen the games next good hooker, Sam Irwin for the Titans, the young kid.

Rabby ; the refs ;

JB you said it professionals , if the effort shown by these two is what we have to look forward to , then god help the rest of the season . I like a game where the two teams decide the outcome and not the refs but opinions vary .

oikee so you agree with the forward pass , we also got penalised hand on the ball but at no stage you could see in the replay the Titans doing the same but no penalty , no sour grapes here mate just looking at the facts , and the media has been told to shut their mouths about the refs this year its going to take a brave journo to come forward and bag em and belted they didn't get . And until people can throw their bias out the door and make refs accountable for bad decisions then their will be more of the same , regardless of what team you barrack for everyone should be worried about the inconsistency shown by these second rate refs .

Steve, i am watching the replay now. Parra had all the running in the first half, titans all the running in the second , parra tried to slow the game down. They got belted mate, but the better team, on a better night in a better stadium. That surface was world-class. I am counting the penalties, all head high, not a word said today by refs or media about a wrong call. Again, sour grapes mate.

I tell you what for "guru's" you lads aren't too bright. The refereeing is a hell of a lot better then it was last year. Stop whinging about referee's. They make about 800 decisions a game, and generally get about 5 wrong a game. 99% aint bad. If you lads can do a better job go nuts but considering these guys are training 5 days a week and are PROFESSIONALS i'd say they're the best we've got and the next best referee's aren't up to that standard. Referee's will get decisions wrong., in just about every game of every sport. It's just jokes of people like you who can't accept that and find the need to lable anyone a referee 'a galoot' because you don't agree with their interpretation. Just accept they've seen it differently to you, you're opinion is not any better then theirs. Let them referee - and for people to suggest they take sides is as much nonsense as you lot are accusing other people of. They're out there busting their gut just as much as the players and coaches are all week and come game day players, coaches and referee's are all going to make mistakes. It's just people like Ricky who shift all of that blame onto one group of people and refuse to accept that if they lost the game then it's because of their own mistakes and not because of the referee's mistakes. They leaked 5 tries, put that down to poor eels defence. Oh that's right players are allowed to make mistakes, just not the refs. Two way street lads

Funny how Ricky Stuart gets hammered by the above posters. Mick Potter did the same thing last week and no article or 30 posts condeming the bloke... As for Robinson, it is amazing that he is still refereeing given his off field indiscretions. He has shown himself to be completely lacking in any moral fibre, so how he can hold a job as an official and work with the other officials who he has let down, staggers me.

I wonder if Ricky will remind his players of the shoulder charge rule :^) Parramatta were hard done by on just 2 calls in my opinion - the rest were legit.

The funny thing with these coaches complaining about lopsided penalty counts is that in nearly all cases the refs end up letting a lot of stuff go for their team anyway. If the refereeing was applied consistently right through the game the penalty count might not be 7-1 but 22-5 or something. But this never happens as the refs get more and more lenient as the count gets higher. Coaches need to be careful what they wish for.

So you bagging Melbourne or the Refs ? Melbourne teach most teams how to play, and taking every inch is playing the game. It refs don't like they it is upto them to stop it, until then it is just Rugby League.

Sticky is the biggest Whinger in the game, it was only a matter of time before he had a go at the refs. Most other coaches just get on with it but not Ricky "its not my fault" Stuart.

Well said Bazzio , some people just refuse to see past their own team , but if it was done to them they are the first to bitch and i am a long suffering eels member , and realise that we don't have the cattle this year to make a dent in the top sides but to sit back and say it was just Sticky whining again because we lost is just plain nonsense , regardless who was the coach of Parra last night if they had any balls the outburst would have been the same .Bloody shocking inconsistent refs who should not be in first grade .

There's not any one team or player that is NOT guilty of the "crawl" after being tackled, or the fake trip when getting up.